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JOSEPH BENFIELD, OF VVALSALL, ENGLAND.

DlE FOR MAKING HORSESHOES.

SEECIFICATIQN forming part of Letters Patent No. 490,734, dated January31, 1893.

Application filed December 9, 1891. Serial No. 414,471. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOSEPH BENFIELD,a subject of Her Majesty the Queenof Great Britain, residing at IV-alsall, in the county ofStafford,England, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement inDies for Making Nailless Horseshoes and other Like Shoes, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention consists in the hereindescribed improved dies for makingthose horse shoes and other like shoes which are fixed to the animalshoof by clips .(usually jagged-or roughened) the clips being formedintegral with the shoe and projecting round the upper outer edge thereofso that when hammered or otherwise pressed against the animals hoof toengage therewith they will secure the'shoe thereon. I

I will describe this invention by referring to the accompanying drawingson which Figure 1 represents in sectional elevation a pair of theimproved dies which I employ for stamping the said horse shoes, astamped blank shoe being also shown in position in the bottom die; Fig.2 shows an invert-ed plan of the top die and Fig. 3 is a plan ofthe'bottom die; Fig. at shows in plan the shoe stamping as it leaves thedies and Fig. 5 shows the partly finished shoe; Fig. 5* shows a part ofthe same when finished; Figs. 6,7 and 8 illustrate a modified form ofthe said dies and Figs. 9 and 10 respectively show a shoe stamping as itleaves thesedies and the partly finished shoe when the web or scrap hasbeen cutaway.

In making a shoe of the kind herein referred to I proceed as followsreference being made first more particularly to Figs. 1 to 5* bothinclusive:I take a heated bar of steel or,other ductile metal or alloybent rou hly into the shape of the required shoe. This bar is preferablyof a round, square, flat, or other solid section, or for making shoeswhich are grooved on the underside as shown in the drawings, a groovedbar may be used the bar in any case being more than sufficient to fillthe dies when stamped as hereinafter described. I provide a pairof topand bottom dies arranged in astamp, the bottom die being fixed to thebed of the stamp and the top die being carried by the hammer andsuitably guided, the bottom die (or the top die) being sunk to the shapeof the required shoe and its clips. In the .drawings the said top andbottom dies are marked respectively A and B. The top die A hasdepressionsa corresponding with the clips 0' of and arranged to fit in acorresponding recess b in the die B. When the said heated bar is stampedbetween the dies A and B a stamp- 7 ing of a shoe 0 and its clips 0'(see Fig. 4) is formed with a thin web or fin c all round (representedby the shaded portion in Fig. 4.) This web or fin is then (by dies ofcorresponding form worked in a press) cut or clipped olf leaving theshoe 0 with its clips 0 each clip having one two or more sideprojections c c (as shown in Fig. 5) which are afterward turned up toform the spikes projecting from the inner surface of the clip at theedge thereof as shown in Fig. 5*. Y

Instead of stamping the shoe with a side projection or side projectionson the clips to form the spikes'as above described with reference toFigs. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 5* one of the dies (preferably the top die A)may as shown, in Figs. 6 and 7 have depressions a corresponding with therequired spikes (such as 0 0 on the clips 0' so as to form the saidspikes as shown in Figs. 9 and 10 during the process of stamping theshoe. The top die A has an inclined projecting part at of a shape toform the seating 0 round the top of the shoe.

When the shoes are required to have projections such as c on their uppersurface to enter the horses hoof and assist in keeping the shoe steadythereon, depressions such as a are made in the top die to correspondwith these projections so as to form the projections in stamping theshoe.

I have illustrated this invention as applied to the manufacture ofchannel section horse and the like shoes made with four clips, but it isto be understood that this invention can be similarly applied to themanufacture ofthose horse and like shoes which have either a smaller ora larger number of the said clips; and when making solid horse shoes andother like shoes the projecting part b of the die B, which forms thegroove in the shoe stamping, is not reqnired,the bottom of the groove bin the shoebeing then made plain or otherwise to correspond With thebottom of the shoe.

Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my saidinvention and in What manner the same is to be performed I declare thatwhat I claim is:-

1. In combination a pair of dies for forming horse shoes and adapted toreceive aroughly bent bar, the lower die having a recess 5' in the formof the shoe designed to receive the bent bar one of the said dies havinglateral depressions asubstantially as described for the formation ofclips.

2. In combination a pair of dies one of which has a recess 1) of theform of the shoe a projection b extending around in said recess, and oneof the dies having lateral recesses for the formation of clips on theshoe substantially as described.

3. In combination a pair of dies one of which has a recess 1) of theform of the shoe and the other having a projecting portion a withsloping edges adapted to enter a corresponding depression in the otherdie and having also the lateral depressions a for forming the clips.

In testimony whereof I have signed in the presence of two subscribingWitnesses.

JOSEPH BENFIELD.

W'itnesses:

CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY, HERBERT WHITEHoUsE.

